stop to discuss here, but all New Thought readers are sufficiently acquainted with the potency of "race-beliefs" to realise how powerful a factor this subjective transmission of a hereditary suggestion would be in forming "the people of the I AM".

And there is yet another aspect of this subject which is of peculiar interest to the British and American nations, into which, however, I shall not enter in this book; but it will be sufficient for me to say that when a suggestion has once been implanted by the Divine Mind, as the Bible tells us that God did to Abraham in the most emphatic manner, taking oath by His Own Being because He could swear by none greater (Heb. 6:13), that suggestion is bound to grow to the most magnificent fulfilment: "My word that goeth forth out of My mouth shall not return unto Me void, but shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I sent it" (Isaiah 55:11).

For the reasons which I have now endeavoured to explain, the principle of "the Shepherd" is "the Stone of Israel"; it is that great ideal by which the nationality of the "People of the I AM" coheres, and it is, therefore, at once the Foundation Stone and the Crowning Stone of the whole edifice. To those who cannot realise the great universal truths which are summed up in the twofold ideal of Sacrifice and Covenant, it must always be the Stone of